We need to take action to help today’s aboriginal children

By Letter to the Editor on June 9, 2021.

Editor:
Instead of more studies about what was wrongly done in the past to these children, we could take action to save the ones living today. One current area of neglect is fetal alcohol syndrome. Back in the Klein days, a Calgary child psychiatrist, Dr. O’Malley, was conducting fetal alcohol clinics that had a two-year waiting list. The government cancelled these clinics and still granted Dr. O’Malley money to go to the U.S. and study guess what…? Fetal alcohol syndrome! He not surprisingly has since stayed in America. This neglect of our aboriginal children is the successor to residential schools. Let’s turn things around and help today’s aboriginal children.
Larry Mackillop
Nanton